• Community House - Grenada MS
    The Grenada Community House is a Tudor style "stone-veneered building with false-half-timbered gables, very similar to the community house in Pontotoc and Winona" and is part of the Grenada Downtown Historic District (Mississippi Department of Archives and History). "On February 9, 1934, with aid from the WPA Library Project, the official Grenada County Library opened in the upstairs room in a building next to the Grenada Bank. In 1936 the Community House was built on Line Street as a project through WPA. Part of the building became the new home of the library. In 1963 the city of Grenada gave the entire Community...
  • Courthouse Improvements - Grenada MS
    Grenada County was approved for WPA project 40079 for rehabilitation of the 1885 courthouse. The project was allotted $11,308 to include improving the boiler room, plastering, painting, and improving floors along with rearranging office space. The Grenada County Board of Supervisors sponsored the WPA project to repair the county court house. The project began January 13 and used an average 34 WPA workers for six months. The state legislature passed legislation for $6,000 county bonds to cover the sponsor portion of the work. The House passed the measure January 18 for funds to be used in match to the federal...